{"id":741,"date":"2009-01-18T23:30:02","date_gmt":"2009-01-18T15:30:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-09-03T18:56:12","modified_gmt":"2011-09-03T10:56:12","slug":"the-boy-with-the-incredible-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/741\/","title":{"rendered":"The Boy With The Incredible Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>source site &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myinterestingfiles.com\/2009\/01\/the-boy-with-the-incredible-brain.html\">The Boy With The Incredible Brain<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Daniel Tammet is a boy with extraordinary mental abilities and one of the world\u2019s few savants. He can do calculations to 100 decimal places in his head, and learn a language in a week. This documentary follows Daniel as he travels to America to meet the scientists who are convinced he may hold the key to unlocking similar abilities in everyone. He also meets the world\u2019s most famous savant, the man who inspired Dustin Hoffman\u2019s character in the Oscar winning film \u2018Rain Man\u2019.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><embed id=\"VideoPlayback\" src=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/googleplayer.swf?docid=4913196365903075662&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=true\" style=\"width:400px;height:326px\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"> <\/embed><br \/>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>source site &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myinterestingfiles.com\/2009\/01\/the-boy-with-the-incredible-brain.html\">The Boy With The Incredible Brain<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Daniel Tammet is a boy with extraordinary mental abilities and one of the world\u2019s few savants. He can do calculations to 100 decimal places in his head, and learn a language in a week. This documentary follows Daniel as he travels to America to meet the scientists who are convinced he may hold the key to unlocking similar abilities in everyone. He also meets the world\u2019s most famous savant, the man who inspired Dustin Hoffman\u2019s character in the Oscar winning film \u2018Rain Man\u2019.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><embed id=\"VideoPlayback\" src=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/googleplayer.swf?docid=4913196365903075662&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=true\" style=\"width:400px;height:326px\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"> <\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[432,381],"tags":[536],"class_list":["post-741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ourworld","category-peopleculture","tag-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1646,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions\/1646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}